Unable to Update CM0102

Firstly, apologies for being a noob. But if it gains me any street cred, I'm a seasoned CM93 veteran ;-)

OK I've installed CM0102 and put the standard patch on. I've then downloaded an update from this website.

I copied the files into my CM0102 Data folder (EVERY file from the download)

When I've tried to start a new game, with the 2005 update, the game crashes at Initialising Data stage.

When I re-installed everything and tried with Nov 2007 update, NOTHING had changed, i.e. the end of season 2001/02 data was still there from the first patch.

Any ideas? These are the only updates I'm interested in.

thanks for any help, I'm using Windows 7 on my laptop if it helps. I'm sure the solution will mean doing something more complicated than simply dumping files in the data folder, but I'm not sure what to do.

Hi
OK I'll go through my steps as it'll make it clearer and easier to spot my mistake. I'm also glad my foolishness may be able to help someone else!

-I installed CM0102
-I installed (double clicked on application) of the 3.9.68 patch which works fine as a standalone patch so problem isn't there.
-I downloaded 2005 and 2007 updates from this site
-With 2005, I then copied all the files from the unzipped file into the data folder, and over-wrote the original files.
-I clicked on the exe file (Not as administrator, just ran normally)
-Upon starting a new game it crashed while loading.
-I uninstalled everything, and repeated above steps but with 2007 updates
-When game loaded no changes had been made to the 3968 patch.

So I guessed that there must be something more "techie" than simply copying the update files into the data folder????

-Also couldn't get Tapani patch to work, but I think that is for another thread! My hope is to play with data from between 2005 and 2007 and it seems that the only benefit I get from the Tapani patch is to play with the dates starting from the right time. Feel free to correct me though, I'm sure Tapani's patches make the game much better, no offence meant!

so after you've checked to see if that works it should be a simple matter of replacing the files in your data folder with the files in the data update you downloaded.... it's usually as simple as that.... extract the files from the download and copy and replace into your data folder.... game should run fine after that with he updated players ad clubs...

Load just CM. See if that works with original data.
Add the 3.9.68. Make sure you unzip it. Then load the game again, see if it's still working at that stage.
Then add your update to the data folder. There should be nothing more than that.
From other searches I've just done it might be down to euro.cfg files but if you use the search bar for initialising game data, you'll find the details on that one.

I read through your post and decided to download the patch from this site, rather than where I'd previously got it from (piratebay or something like that). This time the data files copied over and it works fine. So for those with similar problems, I'd say use the official 3.9.68 patch before trying further updates.

I'd also like to say thanks to everyone helping on this. It's amazing that this got fixed within a few hours, I'd have never got it done without you guys. Keep up the excellent work

I read through your post and decided to download the patch from this site, rather than where I'd previously got it from (piratebay or something like that). This time the data files copied over and it works fine. So for those with similar problems, I'd say use the official 3.9.68 patch before trying further updates.

I'd also like to say thanks to everyone helping on this. It's amazing that this got fixed within a few hours, I'd have never got it done without you guys. Keep up the excellent work

Game freezes about 4-5min and crashes when execute

Hello guys,

I'm having some troubles with CM 01/02 on a specific laptop, here is the deal:

I have a Dell N5110 Win7 x64 6GB RAM, and when I exectue the game on this laptop it freezes for about 4-5 minutes, only showing a black screen and don't let me doing anything, and then when the screens comes to normal the game crashes. I already tried all the compatiblity combinations possible, install all the files and all the patches in compatiblity, try with and without DB updates, but it doesn't change anything. The problem is not the installation method, because I have another Dell laptop (a older one, with Win7 x32) and the CM works fine on it. Does someone having the same problem, or a clue how to solve it?

Already try, didn't work too. This is very strange... try to install it several times too. With cm0102_GDI.exe hapens the same, but the game after those 4-5mins iniciates normally, but doen't recognize any patch

Just change the directory from "Program Files (x86)" to "Program Files".

Don't you mean it the other way around? The regular "Program Files" directory on a 64 bit machine is for 64bit applications - CM0102 should be running out of "Program Files (x86)" (32-bit apps) as it does on my machine without fault

Don't you mean it the other way around? The regular "Program Files" directory on a 64 bit machine is for 64bit applications - CM0102 should be running out of "Program Files (x86)" (32-bit apps) as it does on my machine without fault

For as wrongs as it seems no! I installed the CM on the 64bit Program Files folder and it magical worked!